The name James Crowley might be memorable to people in Boston for the incident he had with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr back in 2009. That was the time when Gates arrived home to his Cambridge, MA house from a trip abroad to find his front door stuck shut. As he and the driver who brought him from the airport tried to push it open, a passerby called police with a report of a possible break-in. Crowley, a Cambridge police officer, arrived and eventually arrested Gates who he claimed behaved belligerently when he questioned him. Gates denied that.
Who was James Crowley?
